Aisling Roche
The ocean has been part of my life from first memory. Summer days spent emersed in the water, cultivated my love of the sea. Personal narratives, mythologyies and family stories are central to my work, as is the study of all aspects of the sea.
Underwater landscapes have become integral to my work. As a regular swimmer in Lough Hyne, who uses a snorkel to swim I have a distinctive visual perspective. These photographs represent the memories, dreams and that other world I enter when I swim.
Instagram: aislinnroche
Website: aislingroche.weebly.com
Catriona Osborne
I work with colour darkroom pinhole photography, creating self portraits with shoebox cameras. It is in the process that I find my inspiration and influence. In the light, paper sensitivity and chemical processes that make up darkroom photography. It is a point and shoot method that I then digitally edit to form colourful displays of time. Instagram: @catrionaosborne
Claire Murphy
These three images were taken on a family holiday last summer. Here I’m exploring this new landscape seeing the environment as it is, then through a reflection and as close to an element of that landscape.
Through my work I observe and document the ordinary moments of daily life, moments of contemplation, of inbetween-ness, all through the analogue medium of 35mm film. Film as a medium is slow, allowing for a more focused act of looking and hands on process of making the image. I am interested in the imperfections of the image that can only happen with film. The heavy grain and scratches on the surface. I want the work to almost resemble paintings through its texture.
https://www.instagram.com/clairemurphy141/
Ida Mitrani
My artistic concerns and interests are influenced by concepts and theories of plant culture in the current environmental crisis, including plant blindness, post-naturalism and hybrid material. The creative process explores the relationship and the interaction between humans, plants and technology, and looks at the function and meaning of weeds in today’s society.
By bringing the viewer’s focus to the vegetal world in an evocative and thoughtful way, I examine the symbiosis and conflict between man and nature while making the familiar more visible. My aim is to capture a memory of the present era using an environment of textures that reflects the diversity and adaptability of life, and contemplates a vision of a possible new understanding of a ‘clean landscape’ where plastic is incorporated in nature.
My most recent work consists of large and small drawing installations together with three-dimensional objects; mixed materials combined with plant-life forms; and layered multiple digitised images. Their positioning in unexpected places evokes the idea of reproduction, sprawl, growth and transformation within the natural world in contrast with the stasis of non-degradable materials.
Jaime Ashforth
I am a Canadian artist now located in West Cork and working toward an MA in Art and Process from MTU Crawford. Cultivating an embodied relationship with continual change and chance encounter underpins my art making. What is alive for me is the liminal space between clarity and obscurity and the inclination to suspend subtle, fleeting moments of movement. My work is land-engaged and material-responsive. Photography, video, and integrating geographical elements into prints, paintings and installations are ways I index my interactions with foreign spaces. If place is a reciprocal exchange, then making is how I situate myself. It is a form of both communion and reckoning.
Kate Mcelroy
I use a mixture of digital, film and multiple exposure techniques in my photography process.
My work captures a sense of flux, capturing an environment that is in transit and transformation is contrasted by a sense of presence and slow observation.
I capture elements on the edge of abstraction, stretching the usual register of perception. I present an ambiguity, so the viewer has space to recreate and move beyond the visible. The work often implements an optical oscillation, through this it subtly suggests a malleable, unfixed reality.
My work captures a place in process, simultaneously constructing and deconstructing. It highlights a betweenness, where definitive boundaries dissolve . .
www.katemcelroy.com
https://www.instagram.com/kate_mcelroy_/
Reddy O’ Regan
At my stage in life I would have hoped to know a lot. Each day I realise I know and understand less and so my work is a serial questioning of my relationship with myself and others and most importantly the space I occupy. Most of the work I show to others is photo based but I use anything which I feel will allow me to express myself. The only value in my work is what you take from its presence.
Rebecca Bradley
I work with paint and found materials to explore ideas about our encounters with landscape and place. Central to my exploration is a concern for space, light, mark making, memory, materials, and the processes to which landscape and memory are subject. Interventions lend a processual and iterative element to the work, suggesting landscape’s transient nature and its resistance to our attempts to capture it in photographs and paintings that render it as a fixed, unmoving entity.
Denied of travel during lockdown earlier this year, time stilled. Whilst sorting through a box of photographs I unearthed buried memories of places I had travelled to. In a quest to awaken and re-visit these journeys (spanning 32 years) I painted these photos in a process that I use in my wider painting practice to tease out ideas about our relationship to place and time through painting, layering and re-collection.
Sinéad Barrett
I examine places which evoke feelings of isolation such as old buildings, woods, graveyards and seascapes. I paint and photograph objects and landscapes that have an etheral quality , a sense of amazement which is often linked to fear of something beyond our understanding or control. Using light and movement to capture a sense of uncertainty and investigate the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind, bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind which let the viewer experience the space. I draw , paint , photograph and make handmade paper for mixed media pieces.
Stephane Bruchet
As a photographer, I am typically drawn to landscape. For me, observing and documenting my surroundings is about finding a sense of place. I look for harmony or tension between natural and cultural environments. There is a broad latitude in the photographic process. It allows for accurate records as well as complete abstraction. For these images, I brought the landscape in the studio. Removed from their context, those pieces of wood take on new qualities and presentation, at time zoomorphic. Seeing beyond the first layer of the image is a fun exercise.
Tom Weld
My surroundings, mostly rural, have fascinated and excited me since childhood. When I wished to express, record those feelings, I’d snap away on my Brownie 127, since about 1955, a decade before starting to paint while at Uni studying Eng Lit. I still use a camera constantly, often as a stepping stone, together with drawing, towards making a painting. Sometimes, as in this current self-propelled project about rubbish, the camera is the main medium. I often notice parallels between the work of one artist and another, in my own work too of course. But I like to think much of my work is relatively original, however much I admire many artists.
website: www.tomweld.ie
William Bock
The May Daily project is a series of 31 photographs created during the first lockdown in West Cork, capturing the artist’s daily encounters with his immediate coastal environment. The works invite us to look at this landscape afresh, to notice how humans are only one part in a co dependent ecosystem. Bock’s May Daily series won first prize at the inaugural Sustainability First 2020 Art Award.
William Bock is an interdisciplinary artist born in West Cork and practicing between here and London. Bock recently exhibited his first solo show Land Walks Land Talks Land Marks at Uillinn in February 2020.
